Friday 22^nd January

1. How do small rich cold countries manage their education? Join this OECD webinar, Let schools decide: The Norwegian approach to school improvement, at 10:00 UK time on Wednesday 27^th January  to find out: https://meetoecd1.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hAPnEo–Tpa0b5kWVrP7AQ

And if I’d written ‘cold small rich countries’ would that have meant something different, I wonder?

2. NATESOL is the Northern Association of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages here in the UK. Several you have attended one of their previous webinars – the ‘Two Steves’ one on Reflective tools & talk for teacher development back in early November was an especially popular one. NATESOL are hosting their annual conference on Zoom this year, on Saturday 15^th May, under the theme Challenge and Change in TESOL, and the deadline for proposals is 28^th February. PDF with more information attached below. If your paper is accepted, we can arrange to pay your conference fee if that would be helpful.

[And here’s the link again to the resource pack for the ‘Two Steves’ session, in case you missed it first time round: https://warwick.padlet.org/stevemann/jcucxu3cmtqbjt5m The password is <reflective>.]

3. Lots of food for thought in this BBC Radio series, Disability: A New History  https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b02140ny

4. And, finally, more great stuff from the National Theatre of Scotland: Janey Godley’s play, Alone – free to watch and very good: https://www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/events/alone

Also this year’s Christmas show, Singalong Rapunzel: https://www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/events/singalong-rapunzel/ Here’s a taste: https://youtu.be/xIgtQoL4NBs